Jim Stabe
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I'll tell you why after I read the responses. It's not that the tach is reading 1000 rpm.
Does anyone see anything odd about my dash insert?
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I'll tell you why after I read the responses. It's not that the tach is reading 1000 rpm.
Zrexxer
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That it won't do you any good once you leave the earth's gravitational field and achieve a stable orbit?
gasman1985
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I'm thinking an 18 volt gauge looks suspect. maybe?
Tom
Tom
Displaced Hokie
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You have an MG and a 160 mph speedometer. Those don't really go together.
Joking...I see that you have an impressive undercarriage and powerplant in there.
Joking...I see that you have an impressive undercarriage and powerplant in there. I hope to be able to go faster than 160 actually but that's not it either. I got the 160 speedo because it is easier to read in actual use (normal road speeds) then the 200 mph ones that Autometer makes. On the very rare occasions that I might try to exceed 160 mph I probably won't be looking at it anyway, I'll get the speed from a piece of paper at the end.You have an MG and a 160 mph speedometer. Those don't really go together.
charle10
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In Britain aren't the steering wheels on the other side of the car?
X2 on the right hand drive.
Nearest I can tell Jim's car is left hand drive. I did go look at the website. So the panel looks assembled correctly for the application.
Only thing I can see out of place is, It is on the bench and not in the car.
Scott
Only thing I can see out of place is, It is on the bench and not in the car.
Scott
BlindViper
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looks like your work bench is idling at 1k rpm with zero oil pressure...might wanna get that looked at.
Okay, nobody saw what I was asking about. When I was wiring up the gauges I noticed that the speedo is about 3/8" lower than than the tach. I looked at it in the car for a couple years and never noticed it. The turn indicators are the two led's just above and inboard of the two large gauges and they are level. You can see that there is a larger gap between the speedo and the led than between the tach and the light.
If anyone had gone "OMG the speedo is REALLY out of position" I would have taken it apart and made a new insert. Since nobody seemed to notice so it probably won't be an issue. It is less evident with the steering wheel in between also.
Thanks
If anyone had gone "OMG the speedo is REALLY out of position" I would have taken it apart and made a new insert. Since nobody seemed to notice so it probably won't be an issue. It is less evident with the steering wheel in between also.
Thanks
wornoutoldman
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We should be looking at the rear of those guages not the face.
welder4956
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Have you tried to remove some lettering on the gauges? Looks like the brand name or logo has been rubbed off or is blurred.
Steve from Socal
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Jim,
The reason it is not too apparent is the edge distance at the bottom is pretty even; a thought on the turn indicators, find larger LEDs and offset the larger LEDs to mask the difference.
Steve
The reason it is not too apparent is the edge distance at the bottom is pretty even; a thought on the turn indicators, find larger LEDs and offset the larger LEDs to mask the difference.
Steve
Steve from Socal
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Jim,
I saw it and thought it was a design element; on my old Healey the dash was curved, I can't visualize an MGB dash but a little crown in the glare shield is not uncommon. My only thought was the speedo and tach are reversed but, I am used to Mercedes cluster layouts. With the gauges having fairly even lower edge spacing the upper alignment is not a focal point, it really is unnoticeable.
Steve
I saw it and thought it was a design element; on my old Healey the dash was curved, I can't visualize an MGB dash but a little crown in the glare shield is not uncommon. My only thought was the speedo and tach are reversed but, I am used to Mercedes cluster layouts. With the gauges having fairly even lower edge spacing the upper alignment is not a focal point, it really is unnoticeable.
Steve
Thanks Steve
That last sentence is what I was looking for. It's like the bug that lands in your paint and never quite buffs out. You know it's there so that's the only thing you see but everyone else thinks it's a great paint job. Like I said above, with the steering wheel in place it becomes much less noticible also.
Thanks for your help
MP&C
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Jim, I didn't notice it until you pointed it out. Now that I look again, it appears that the top of the left side tapers off toward the end of the dash...
wiz56
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It took a while but I saw it...........the bottom is okay, but the ED at the top is not right.
Frank The Plumber
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You could have gotten all four of those gauges in one unit and saved space and money or gotten two large gauges and a smaller tach in the same gauge family and color option and saved 300 dollars. Oh that was not it? shoulda been. It would have been better to place the tach on the right any how, keeps your head and eyes centered as you're gear banging.
johno
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I saw it right away, but I'm a very picky person that way.
I doubt most people will notice it, especially with the wheel there.
I doubt most people will notice it, especially with the wheel there.
Okay, nobody saw what I was asking about. When I was wiring up the gauges I noticed that the speedo is about 3/8" lower than than the tach. I looked at it in the car for a couple years and never noticed it. The turn indicators are the two led's just above and inboard of the two large gauges and they are level. You can see that there is a larger gap between the speedo and the led than between the tach and the light.
If anyone had gone "OMG the speedo is REALLY out of position" I would have taken it apart and made a new insert. Since nobody seemed to notice so it probably won't be an issue. It is less evident with the steering wheel in between also.
Thanks
Sorry, not to be a *****, but I did notice that. I was going to reply, and then decided to scroll down and read the responses, getting as far as yours.
It's weird, because they look like they're level at the bottom, which means the tach is a larger diameter than the speedo.
-Brad
56nash
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My 56 Nash had a really nice set of 6 fly legs under the clear just above my drives door on the roof. The painter apparently just flicked it out of the base white and then cleared over the top. it really bugged the **** out of me but over time the legs have become sunfaded and you have to know where to look. I just really liked the bug in the paint comment. Awesome car by the way, that should be a real handfull.
Tach and speedo are the same diameter. The reason that the spacing at the bottom looks the way it does is that I built the part of the dash to the left of the steering column after I made the insert that holds the gauges so the spacing around the gauges is consistent - just higher than the side to the right of the column.
So, if I remake the insert to have the tach and speedo level, the spacing to the dash will be off. I can tell you that I'm hesitant to remake the insert but there's no way in hell I'm going to remake the dash. So as I replied to T1320T above - I meant to do it that way!
Az Scooter
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I just figured it was because the dash was curved up. No big deal, unless someone is hyper **** retentive, then they probably have bigger issues to deal with.
Thanks.
I know what you mean about looking at it every time I get in the car. However, in thinking about it I realized that making a new plate with the speedo raised up would create an uneven gap at the bottom that might be even more noticible. To truly fix it I would have to make a new insert and then cut the left side of the dash out from the steering column over and remake that as well. I take consolation knowing that early Ferraris and other hand made cars had much worse asymmetry in much more noticible areas on the car and people still pay fortunes for them.
ptschram
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I've built a coupla instrument panels and afterwards, there's always something that was missed.
The first one was in a '71 Nova street/strip car. I put the lights for the turn signal indicators too high on the panel and when seated, you couldn't see them!
Fast forward 20 years and I'm making one for a Chevy truck that had a fire. Keeping the first mistake in mind, I wasn't gonna do THAT again. I did however wire the volt gauge backward somehow, or maybe it was the fuel gauge. Either wya, I didn't bother to fix that one either.
Yes, I have put a few together that were right-LOL
The first one was in a '71 Nova street/strip car. I put the lights for the turn signal indicators too high on the panel and when seated, you couldn't see them!
Fast forward 20 years and I'm making one for a Chevy truck that had a fire. Keeping the first mistake in mind, I wasn't gonna do THAT again. I did however wire the volt gauge backward somehow, or maybe it was the fuel gauge. Either wya, I didn't bother to fix that one either.
Yes, I have put a few together that were right-LOL
I'd have never noticed it in a car... and as a writer for car magazines, I look at details for a living.
I wouldn't worry a bit about it. Had you not told us to look for a flaw, I wouldn't have found it.
-Brad
nate379
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Glad I'm not the only one that was thinking that!
DrunkSmurf
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I noticed it, but as others have said, I wouldn't sweat it too much personally.
It's hard to tell how much play the trim ring gives you, but you might be able to egg out the top of one dash opening and the bottom of the other to get rid of some of the offset. If that makes sense.
It's hard to tell how much play the trim ring gives you, but you might be able to egg out the top of one dash opening and the bottom of the other to get rid of some of the offset. If that makes sense.
MartyO
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Is that wood around the shift tunnel?